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Copies of letters of a Norwegian-born Jackson County, Wisconsin, farmer, county official, and Civil War veteran (letter from Camp Dennison, Ohio). One American letter discusses farm crops, horse thieves, and church. Torkelson was a member of Company…

Articles, clippings, and pamphlets of an Iowa farmer, author, and musician dealing with the history of Norwegian Americans in the Story City area. Among the papers are a list of Tjernagel's musical compositions and writings; a Story City, Randall,…

Civil War and other letters received by Rulland (born in Nordre Fron, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway; emig. 1854), Coon Prairie, Wisconsin.

Miscellaneous articles, clippings, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, family history material of a former foreign correspondent (Asia) and freelance writer, in recent years best known as an expert on the local history of central Wisconsin,…

Papers of a western Dane County, Wisconsin, farmer; biographical data; an address given at a reunion of the Fifteenth Wisconsin Infantry at Scandia Hall, Chicago (August 29, 1900), in which Steensland recounts his Civil War Experiences including…

"The Fifteenth Wisconsin," an English version of Kristofer Janson's "Femtende Wisconsin," a novel published in Copenhagen in 1887. Cleven served as minister of the American Lutheran Church in Oslo for many years.

Papers relating to former NAHA member E. Biddle Heg. Heg is the great grandson of Hans Christian Heg, a colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. E. Biddle Heg was originally from California, but attended schools in both…

Organized by Joan Styve for online documents. Includes: Photocopies of photographs of Isabel Styve and W.C. Lembke and family from the collections of Isabel and W.C. Lembke, Pernilla Lembke, and Lucille Brandt Lembke Recollections of "house car"…

Three photocopied family letters: 1872 from Waupaca, Wisconsin: Correspondent working on railroad near Stevens Point. Mentions Ole Rude, Petter Bakken, and Ole Hasvold 1874 from Johan Benson, Carver County. Drew pension (assume Civil War) 1879 from…

Papers of a Norwegian-born farmer at Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Civil War letters by Berge, other correspondence, and a poem. Berge served in Co. E, 19th Wis. Infantry. His wife was Berit Veblen Nygard.According to Robert Bjerke (Univ. of Wisc.…